Productions “Yi As Akh Padshah Bai”
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“Give us guns and we’ll play our role!” - These are not the words of a hardened criminal, these are the words of a teenaged girl in Kashmir less than a week after her sister was buried. Farha’s sister Shahnaza, and her friend, Ulfat, victims of‘crossfire’, would have been adult women today - they were barelyseventeen when they died, as old as the tehreek, the movement, thatexploded into existence in 1989, shattering forever the peace of theValley, and turning it into one of the most critical conflict zones inthe world.
Over these eighteen years, flashes of intensified conflict and bouts of negotiations have followed one another with monotonous regularity in Kashmir. Newspapers and television channels manufacture predictable binary images of conflict – angry men and weeping women, peace loving Kashmiris and terrorist Kashmiris, misguided innocents and fundamentalist separatists, victims and aggressors. Over and above these is the image that erases all differences – the Kashmiri as terrorist.
It felt strange to speak to women, only women, ignoring the other half. So we spoke to a few men – one a former militant, another who had sent his son for training across the border with his blessings, a third who had lost his son and then realized he was a militant, a fourth whose brother was killed in crossfire – we spoke to men and realized that while every story had the power to shock and move, the women’s stories were compelling in their honesty, in their rage, in their helplessness, in their grief, in their contempt, in their fierce refusal to forget, in their determination to survive, to nurture. It is through these women – proud, strong, with an undying zest for life – that we examine what peace means and how it can come about in Kashmir. Crew (All Women Crew) Directed by Kavita Pai / Hansa Thapliyal Camera: Ranu Ghosh Sound: Gissy Michael Editing: Gouri Patwardhan Music: Manish J. Tipu Executive Producer: E. Deenadayalan Bio –Filmography of Directors Kavita Pai Won 4th JOHN ABRAHAM NATIONAL AWARD for 'Cinema of Resistance' in SIGNS 2009- the Indian festival for features and non-features, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
3rd ViBGYOR International Film Festival, Thrissur, Kerala, India International Video Festival of Kerala - 2008 Swaralaya International Film Festival - 2008, Kerala 14th Kolkatta Film Festival 10th Madurai International Film Festival Tri-Continental Film Festival-2009 |
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